[JOBOPP] MSMU job posting: User Services Librarian

[Aisha Conner-Gaten, MSLIS]

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From: Danielle Salomon <dsal...@msmu.edu>
Sent: Friday, March 27, 2026 5:17 PM
To: 'Amy Pham' via SCELC Community Forum [scelc] <sc...@scelc.org>
Subject: [EXTERNAL] [scelc] MSMU job posting: User Services Librarian

 

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Dear SCELC Community:

Mount Saint Mary's University is hiring a User Services Librarian for our downtown Los Angeles campus. Please pass this along to anyone who might be interested. 

The User Services Librarian manages the daily operations of the J. Thomas McCarthy Library, including setting hours, overseeing staffing, and ensuring library users' needs are being met. The position coordinates with Facilities and Campus Security to maintain a safe, clean, and accessible environment, and oversees library spaces and physical collections. Working under the Associate Director of User Services and Academic Engagement, the role develops and maintains policies for circulation, reserves, interlibrary loan, and other user services, and ensures documentation is current and accessible. 

Work Location: Doheny Campus (Downtown Los Angeles) 

Start Date: Immediately 

Application Deadline: Open until filled

Annual Salary Rate: $70,304.00

Monthly Salary Rate: $5,858.67

Hiring salary can be above the posted pay range if candidate's qualifications are determined to be above the minimum requirements of the position description.

Duties and Responsibilities:        

1. Serves as the on-site manager of the McCarthy Library at the Doheny campus, ensuring optimal services, facilities, and resources are provided to users
2. Works with User Services staff to determine the J. Thomas McCarthy Library's hours and staffing; provides direction on, and participates in, hiring and training student employees
3. Supervises two employees and, indirectly, approximately 25 student employees who provide user services at the circulation desk
4. Serves as the J. Thomas McCarthy Library's liaison to Facilities Management and Campus Security, ensuring that the library's facilities are clean, safe, and accessible
5. Manages the physical spaces and collections at the McCarthy Library, in consultation with librarians and colleagues
6. Under the direction of the Associate Director of User Services and Academic Engagement, develops policies and procedures for circulation services and statistics, course reserves and e-reserves, interlibrary loan services, and general user services across both campus libraries
7. Documents and maintains policies and procedures in a shared platform accessible to all library staff
8. Collects and analyzes statistics for the assessment of services and spaces; compiles data for IPEDS, the ACRL Benchmark survey, and the MSMU Libraries annual report
9. Coordinates support for the execution of events in the McCarthy Library
10. Serves as the lead for the integrated library system's fulfillment, resource sharing, user management, and analytics modules; monitors, troubleshoots, and makes recommendations about the functions of the integrated library system (ILS)
11. Ensures McCarthy Library staff and student workers are trained on ILS functions and able to perform circulation and resource sharing tasks adequately

All the best,

Danielle

Danielle Salomon

Assistant Vice President of Libraries and Academic Resources

Mount Saint Mary's University

12001 Chalon Road, Los Angeles, CA 90049

10 Chester Place, Los Angeles, CA 90007

310.954.4371 (Chalon) | 213.477.2734 (Doheny)

310.850.6125 (mobile)

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